A Lesser Known Advantage Of The iPhone: Dual Mode Access!

Okay, we all know about the main features of the iPhone that are now poised to turn it into the next big thing in the cell phone industry. By fusing the best traits of a cell phone, Ipod, and internet browser-enabled PDA in one handy package, the Ipod has generated huge waves since it's initial public release in June 2007. A lesser know fact about the iPhone, however, is the peripherals that can be bought for it, as well as the growing support that this new breed of phone is getting from phone company giants like AT&T.

One of the most important sideline applications that can be run with an iPhone is dual mode internet telephony. Under old circumstances, a standard telephony kit is simply using an internet connection, especially Wifi, to make a call instead of using a regular phone line. Internet telephony systems often don't make use of a standard telephone unit either, instead relying on a headset and a program that simulates a phone's numeric pad to dial. A telephony can contact anyone, though restrictions can be limited to other subscribers to the provider's telephony system, or can access even regular phone lines for an added cost.

Telephony services are treated as a separate entity from using regular phone services for making phone calls, but they also offer more features like video teleconferencing, live chatrooms and such that make telephony use more appealing to some people than regular phone lines.

Now that we know WHAT telephony services are, how does this tie in to the iPhone? Simple. Imagine being able to access telephony numbers, lines and services through your cellular telephone. This is one of the additional features that the iPhone have to offer. Most people don't know about this, or talk about it less compared to the Iphone's other features, but it's there. At the moment Apple's major partner is AT&T, so users are currently limited to using only telephony services from AT&T. However, other companies that offer telephony and related services like Skype are starting to create programs and hardware that are intended to be fully compatible with the iPhone and it's features.

Given that, it's only a matter of time before video teleconferencing in boardrooms becomes a thing of the past, as the iPhone will enable people to take advantage of it's dual mode telephony access no matter where they may be on the globe. The impact of the iPhone may be more far reaching than most people suspect.